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Suprematist Relief-Sculpture
Jean Pougny (Ivan Puni) (Russian, born Finland. 1892–1956)
1920s (reconstruction of 1915 original). Painted wood, metal, and cardboard, mounted on wood panel, 20 x 15 1/2 x 3" (50.8 x 39.3 x 7.6 cm). The Riklis Collection of McCrory Corporation
Collection work meeting criteria specified in Introduction.
1060.1983
Madame X. Pougny (Mrs. Jean Pougny, born Xénia Bogouslawska, a.k.a. Xana Bougouslavskaya, a Russian painter herself, d. 1972), Paris. Until 1968
Auction, Christie’s, London, December 6, 1968, cat. no. 48
Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York. [Likely purchased at auction in 1968] By 1971-72
The Riklis Collection of McCrory Corporation. By 1978
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Riklis Collection of McCrory Corporation, 1983
Sculpture
Sculpture verte
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